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Language
English
Abstract
Letters of Henry and Joseph Bennett concerning travel by sea from New York to Chagres, Panama, overland across Panama and
by ship to San Francisco in 1851. Letters from California, 1852-1853, discuss arrival of immigrants; employment conditions
and wages; gambling and social life in San Francisco; investment opportunities; conditions in the gold mines; travel by steamboat
to Hangtown (Placerville); churches; crime; Indians; mining profits; cost of land; ranching; blacksmith and plough shop in
Santa Clara; digging a canal to take water from the American River to supply Hangtown, Coon Hollow, and Gold Hill; and Webber
Run. Two letters by Joseph Bennett from Australia in l853 comment on mining, living conditions, profits of mining, and criminals
sent from Great Britain. There is one 1849 letter to Samuel Bennett from relatives in Sheffield, England. There are several
items of Jacobs family correspondence, 1880-1923, concerning family affairs, schools, economic conditions in Jackson County,
and Monongalia County taxes in 1907.
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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Joseph and Henry Bennett Papers, A&M 1731, West Virginia and Regional
History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
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